Kendra Keefer is interested in how trauma informs human and animal patterns of behavior.
Her work explores myth and storytelling as a road map to catharsis, healing, and understanding. She interrogates both how human trauma impacts the natural environment, often in negative ways, and how embracing the natural environment can provide shelter and focus.
Keefer is not interested in Art for Art’s sake but is fascinated by how art can be used as a language to communicate hope and possibility. Her work is biographical, narrative, and intentionally complex. It recognizes that humans who live with trauma often become hypervigilant in their search for pattern and meaning in chaos, finding kinship with other animals, who are also hypervigilant for survival.
Keefer creates paintings, drawings, poetry, photographs, and videos that she arranges into installations. Her work is heavily influenced by music, especially folk music, in which she has been immersed in since childhood.
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